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I'm neither a drinking nor a smoking woman but the urge to grab a pack of Marlboros and a bottle of slivovitz and hope we survive the duration is growing stronger every day.

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Executive Privilege Means Nothing if the Next President Can Waive It | Opinion

ALAN DERSHOWITZ , EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF LAW, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL

ON 6/14/22 AT 6:00 AM EDT

"Executive privilege, rooted in Article Two of the Constitution, empowers the president to confer confidentially with members of his staff without fear that these secret communications will be made public. It is akin to similar privileges such as those with one's lawyer, priest, doctor and spouse. Their purpose is to encourage candid communications that are intended to remain secret."

"But now, the Biden administration is claiming that communications made by President Donald Trump when he was in office can be waived by subsequent presidents. If this were the case, it would mean the end of executive privilege, since no one would be able to count on the future confidentiality of communications made with a sitting president."

"That means President Joe Biden would not be able to assure his chief of staff or his secretary of state that their advice would not become the subject of a subpoena when the next president is sworn in. If a subsequent president is of a different party, he could play politics with the privilege and waive it in hopes of benefiting his party or reelection prospects. No one would be willing to give a sitting president controversial advice if he knew the next president had the power to disclose it."

https://www.newsweek.com/executive-privilege-means-nothing-if-next-president-can-waive-it-opinion-1715230

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